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GIRONA - Arabic baths, mosques and synagogues

Girona, or Oppidum Gerunda like the Romans called it, is situated 60 km south of the border with France and 100 km north of Barcelona. The town is the best town that you can visit to see both Jewish and Arabic memorial monuments from the middle age. The Arabs came to Iberia in 711 and was thrown out in 1492, at the same time as the Jewish people, by the catholic monarchy Isabella and Ferdinand. Some of them converted to catholic and in this way avoided the obligation to leave the country. They were exposed for persecution and torture to test their loyalty to the church.

One good way of seeing the old town in Girona is to walk at the old town wall from the middle age. It takes approximately 30 minutes to go from Plaza Catalonia to the north part of the town where the beautiful gothic cathedral and the Arabic baths are situated. The Jewish part of the city, which was the richest part in the whole Iberia in the middle age, is called “Call”, like it is in Barcelona. One exciting part of the town contains almost a chaos of small, narrow streets with small plazas at both sides of the streets, which is called “Carrer La Forca”.

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